![]() ![]() ![]() In the literature, invasive plants are usually related to their high rates of nitrogen acquisition, and their abundance may be related to nitrogen-rich zones. Analysis on the plant phenotypic plasticity is fundamental to understand the potential invasiveness, and therefore, minimize ecological and economic impacts. Despite the impacts already reported elsewhere – biodiversity loss, altered forest successional trajectories, disrupted nutrient cycles, there has been a notable lack of studies addressing Acacia phenotypic plasticity among plant communities elsewhere in the world. Endemic to Australia, Acacia has spread to Mediterranean and Tropical regions virtually worldwide. ![]() ![]() The establishment of self-sustaining invasive plant communities is traditionally associated with environmental variables, although functional traits among species occupying similar indicate that sustainable invasive communities may also be mediated by intrinsic species attributes. Here, we examine multiple lines of evidence to disentangle this issue on how ecological similarity is determined between different invaded ranges in order to explain the susceptibility to invasion by Acacia longifolia. sophorae) occur predominantly in areas of coastal dunes with poor soils and ecosystems historically modified, and (ii) the temperate Australian regions where many of these species occur can also climatically support both native and non‐native distributions of A. More problematically, this climate zone is widely regarded as the ecological niche of Acacia longifolia's invasive species distribution, because (i) the two Acacia longifolia species (A. An unresolved problem in the invasibility study of the Australian Acacia longifolia species is that many of its invaded ranges are characterized by coastal environment systems occuring in the boundaries between continents with a long history of human presence which are classified as 'temperate zones' when they are functionally a mix of specific climate conditions (oceanic, humid, subtropical, mediterranean, and other different types). ![]()
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